Sentences with phrase «as road salt»

Many of us love to watch those huge piles of snow melt away during the spring, but keep in mind that the puddles that the melt - off creates contain toxic substances such as road salt and antifreeze.

While the car doesn't actually clean itself, the new coating is said to prevent splashes from puddles or road spray, as well as road salt that's deployed in the winter, from sticking to the car's surface.

Tap water contains on an average from 200 - 400 of TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) depends on a state you live in, which are substances such as road salt, metals, old piping, leaves whole bunch of other things that our water contains.

Scientists are only beginning to understand the effects of individual contaminants such as road salt and pesticides on food webs, and very little is known of their combined effects.

Putting into practice techniques that keep contaminants like manure, phosphorus and pesticides — as well as road salt — from running off the land into creeks and streams and leading to bigger problems like algal blooms, bacteria proliferation and other water quality problems.

Not exact matches

Hardness can also vary over seasons, as the dissolved minerals can be diluted by a flood of spring rain or amplified by road salts and melting snow.

Keeping your car in the garage protects it from rough weather such as rain, snow, and road salt, and from unwanted visitors.

She added other priority areas such as energy sector especially renewables as well as infrastructure sector such as roads, railways, ports, airports, public housing and real estate development, manufacturing and Industry, mining industrial salt, gold, bauxite and iron ore and tourism, ICT and in the financial services sector especially equity financing.

As the sight of trucks and plows on icy roads becomes a winter memory, a study from the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies reveals the impact of road salt on private drinking water wells.

And he says he supports legislation to prevent the fracking waste water to be spread on roads for dust control or as deicing salt.

He believes that this will save a lot of money in terms of the amount of sand / salt that the road crews use, as well as helping in the spring when they clean the roads, as there would be much less to clean if they can reduce the salt and sand that they spray on the roads during wintertime.

But road salts and deicers, mostly made of the same stuff as table salt, are not the only culprits.

The hydrated salts would lower the freezing point of a liquid brine, just as salt on roads here on Earth causes ice and snow to melt more rapidly.

Roadways and impervious surfaces such as parking lots and sidewalks are reliable proxies for road salt application because as developed areas, they are susceptible to high levels of salting and runoff.

The study, conducted at Yan's lab in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, suggests that lake and highway authorities consider adjusting road salt use protocols to protect aquatic life such as the water flea, by taking the nutritional status of the lakes into account.

Co-author Sarah Bartlett, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, explains, «These results are likely an underestimation of the salinization problem, as a number of regions with heavy road salt application, such as Quebec or the Maritime Provinces of Canada, had no long - term lake data available.»

As winter approaches, stores, cities and homeowners are stocking up on salt, gravel and sand in anticipation of slippery roads.

Howard has measured chloride levels as high as 14 000 milligrams per litre near heavily salted roads.

Alternatives and additives to the most common form of road salt, sodium chloride, are marketed as environmentally friendly replacements because they allow highway crews to maintain ice - free roads while applying less salt.

Accurate forecasts for road surface temperatures are important as, when it is possible to anticipate the freezing of the road surface, roads can be salted in time and motorists warned about the slippery conditions.

The researchers were surprised to learn that road salt caused a change of sex, from female to male, in tadpoles — the opposite of the feminization effect sometimes seen as

And although road salt as a pollutant is well - known to researchers, it is studied only infrequently.

The researchers were surprised to learn that road salt caused a change of sex, from female to male, in tadpoles — the opposite of the feminization effect sometimes seen as pharmaceutical pollutants affect waterways.

And although road salt as a pollutant is well - known to researchers, it is

«Although all lakes are unique, they all share the same threats including excess nutrients, pollutants such as pesticides or road salt, invasive species, human development, and global climate change,» Relyea states.

In addition, while sodium chloride road salt is the most widely used type of road salt, it is increasingly being replaced by alternatives that contain different types of salts or different additives such as beet juice.

A common species of zooplankton — the smallest animals in the freshwater food web — can evolve genetic tolerance to moderate levels of road salt in as little as two and a half months, according to new research published online today in the journal Environmental Pollution.

The findings make use of experiments conducted as part of The Jefferson Project at Lake George testing the potential impacts of road salt and leaf litter on the health of aquatic ecosystems.

The research builds on recent findings from the Jefferson Project at Lake George, showing that a common species of zooplankton, Daphnia pulex, can evolve tolerance to moderate levels of road salt in as little as two and a half months.

I think just kind of looking at some takeaways, the main recommendations is that, kind of the new science is that there is new science showing adverse health effects of low sodium intake, especially among individuals with diabetes, kidney disease, cardiovascular disease, as well as people who are healthy and trying to limit their salt intake because of fear that too much might cause potential problems heart disease wise down the road.

Could not wear bottom half here (Montréal) as pants are immediately splattered with salt and gravel bits used to treat the roads and sidewalks - it's inescapable all winter!

From Phyllis Nagy's script (adapting the 1952 novel The Price of Salt) through the loving cinematography from Edward Lachman (not as flashy as the Mad Max: Fury Roads and Sicarios of the world, but no less impactful), from the shrewd editing of Affonso Goncalves to Carter Burwell's understated yet foundational score and Sandy Powell's beautiful costuming, Haynes has put together a professional crew that sets the tone with aplomb.

As snow and low temperatures cause transport problems all over the UK, a timely summary of the importance of rock salt (used for road grit and other products).

The House will take up the texting while driving ban aka «TTYL» bill (HB2) sponsored by Rep. Jim McClendon, Rep. Mac McCutcheon's legislation adding utility trucks and wreckers to the list of vehicles for which drivers are required to slow down and move into a vacant lane for when parked on the side of the road (HB76), and Rep. Allen Farley's bill to crack down on synthetic drugs known as «spice» or «salts» (HB158).

The axle problems were blamed on road salt erosion, as well as the possibility that the U-frame design collapsing and breaking while the vehicle is in motion.

As with so many of our meticulously planned trips we weren't entirely sure what to expect when we arrived, and an exploratory potter up to the top of the road didn't reveal much other than snow, trees and the fact that the road had been salted, which was something of a relief.

Details: Moisture containing road salt could enter the battery junction box and cause corrosion of the fuse and wiring terminals, resulting in a loss of electrical connectivity in some powertrain circuits, which might cause the vehicle to stall, as well as exterior lighting.

Granted, the bodies of the old trucks have held up well to 30 years of road salt, etc., but wouldn't it make more sense to use off - the - shelf vans like promaster city, transit connect or similar, which are made as RHD for other markets?

In the affected vehicles, the front lower control arms may break due to corrosion from salt water exposure such as from road salt use.

Instead of road handling that is merely acceptable, VW has been touting the car's adroitness on tarmac, as well as doing promotional things like running modified versions at up to 186 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats and in the California desert to show what potential this compact four - door has next to other hybrids.

This coating is black with a nice semi gloss finish and is hard as nails and impervious to chemicals or road salts.

With the whole army of seven pickups and two SUVs, a cooler full of lunches, and more camera and video firepower than you can shake a stick at, we hit the road for the 35 - mile Cerro Gordo trail loop and soon had the T - cases in low range as we climbed towards the Salt Tram Station at the top.

The company produces salt (primarily used by cities for deicing roads but has many consumer and industrial uses as well), specialty potash (a premium fertilizer that improves the quality, yield, and shelf life of high - value fruit, vegetable, and tree nut crops), micronutrients (essential minerals that maximize plant yields), and magnesium chloride (used in numerous ways including roadway deicing, dust control, and as plant nutrients for wheat crops).

Causes of dry, cracked pads can include repeated exposure to chemicals (such as rug / floor cleaners, lawn fertilizer and pesticides, road salt), zinc deficiency, distemper, and chronic licking.

Dogs with badly cracked pads should not walk on snow or ice in winter without boots or protection - as the salt from sidewalks or roads can be agony in a deep crack.

Nails that are too long, or torn; the skeleton being off kilter, so the paws are taking more pressure than they should have to; debris such as pine needles, sticky weeds, tiny bits of gravel between the toes, ticks buried between the toes, salt from winter roads, hot pavement, lawn chemicals that cause a burning feeling; growths / tumors, and even cancerous lesions.

Beware of potentially dangerous chemicals such as antifreeze or road salt.

Road salt can irritate or burn, as well as cause vomiting.

In mid-January, a man who was on an off - road adventure discovered an ailing dog who was all alone in a salt desert area of Utah known as Salt Flsalt desert area of Utah known as Salt FlSalt Flats.

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